2009 April

Kubuntu ships with a modified version of KDE’s plasma that has Google Gadget support disabled.  If you care, their justification for it is here.  I have wanted to add Google Gadgets seemlessly to my desktop for some time and had hoped that the new version 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope would fulfill my dreams.  As of Release [...]

This morning I got caught in an RSS tornado.  I was minding my own business in gmail on my Eee PC when I must have accidentally clicked on “Google Reader”.  The next thing I know, over 1,000 news articles were at my fingertips. No, this is not an ad for Google.  There are plenty of [...]